Clash Of The Titans (1981)
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You've visited lands where a Cyclops roams (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), skeletons duel (Jason and the Argonauts) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (The Valley of Gwangi). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in Clash of the Titans.

Olympian gods, mythological monsters and heroic mortals populate this imaginative spectacle. Harry Hamlin is Perseus, mortal son of Zeus (Laurence Olivier) and champion of captive Andromeda (Judi Bowker). From that storyline, Harryhausen unleashes sea creature Kraken, snake haired Medusa, swamp denizen Calibos, flying horse Pegasus, two headed dog Dioskilos, giant scorpions and all manner of eye popping adventure. Let the clash begin!

Storyline: Perseus is the favored son of the god Zeus, but he has unwittingly ticked off the sea goddess Thetis. Just to make things worse, Perseus falls in love with the lovely Princess Andromeda, who used to be engaged to Thetis's son. Soon Perseus is off on one quest after another, with Zeus helping, Thetis hindering, and lots of innocent bystanders getting stabbed, drowned, and squished. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

User Comment: Christopher Mulrooney Los Angeles • The humorous title describes the device learned by Perseus from the Stygian Witches, that of beheading Medusa in order to destroy the Kraken threatening Andromeda. The screenplay is carried out by Davis as cinematic representations of Greek myth seen as thought made into language.

It is, in fact, a companion piece to Jason And The Argonauts. The great Ray Harryhausen displays his art of stop-frame animated sculptures in scrupulous depictions of a two-headed dog, giant scorpions, Medusa herself (a particularly dreadful creature, well-prepared in concert with Davis), the winged horse Pegasus, etc.

Davis exhibits genius in the casting: Ursula Andress as Aphrodite, Maggie Smith as Thetis, Claire Bloom as Hera, Laurence Olivier as Zeus, etc.

Summary: Genius.

--- JOYA ---

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